Former ANC host Pia Hontiveros will anchor the 1-hour newscast which will air at
6PM.

“Being an anchor is like riding a bike or driving a car, you never really forget
how to do it,” Hontiveros said in a statement.

Hontiveros will be working with a new breed of reporters and the newscast will be supervised but not executive produced by Senior Vice President for News and Public Affairs Jing Magsaysay.

This will mark a new chapter in Hontiveros' career as she takes a bigger role
— this time as the face of Solar News. It was something that appealed to her when she joined the network last year, off from a successful career on ABS-CBN News. “I’m looking forward to this new adventure. What a journey it has been and what a journey it will be, that’s how I look at my career in journalism,” she said.

Solar Network News will be a straight newscast with mostly stories on national news, politics, business and the economy. The network will try to differentiate itself from the Big 3 networks by not devoting airtime on police news stories.

“We will air news that is useful, news that you can use,” said Hontiveros.

Solar News Production Head and Solar Network News supervising producer Ferdie Aboga said: “We will not reinvent broadcasting in the Philippines, we will not revolutionize journalism. We are just here to do our basic task as journalists, which is to tell the story. And that’s what we’ll do: tell the story of the Filipino people.”“Journalists often times assume what is good for the viewers
and we sometimes take away from them their basic right to formulate their own
view of the news. We will not do that," he added. "We will present news in a sober, unaffected manner and we will leave it up to the audience to decide what is good and bad, what is right and what is wrong.”Solar Network News
will air live this Monday, June 18 at 6PM on TalkTV.